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Sacred and Immoral

On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk

Edited By: Jeffrey A. Sartain

£39.99

This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.

The Short Story

Edited By: Ailsa Cox

£34.99

The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.

Messengers of Eros

Representations of Sex in Australian Writing

By: Xavier Pons

£29.99

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia's postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia’s postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£34.99

Modern Chinese literature raises complex questions about life amid changing values and uncertainty. This volume presents ten essays by Chinese and European scholars examining the individual and society, searching beyond national identities for global exchange.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

£39.99

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

The Gothic Byron

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Post-National Enquiries

Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings

Edited By: Jopi Nyman

£39.99

These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.

Jesuit Education and The Classics

Edited By: Shannon Byrne, Edmund P. Cueva

£39.99

Is Classics still relevant to a Jesuit education? This series of essays proves that Classics and Jesuit education are indivisibly intertwined, and any Jesuit school embracing liberal arts must have Classics at the core of its curriculum.

Inside Knowledge

(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities

Edited By: Maria Boletsi, Itay Sapir, Carolyn Birdsall

£44.99

Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.

Forces of Nature

Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture

Edited By: Bernadette H. Hyner

£39.99

Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.

Recounting Cultural Encounters

Edited By: Marija Knežević

£39.99

This book highlights how cultural encounters change our world and its reflection in literature. It emphasizes the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding, focusing on our perception of the Other in an era of globalization.

Authority of Expression in Early Modern England

Edited By: Nely Keinänen, Maria Saleniu

£39.99

Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.

Women Editing/Editing Women

Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism

Edited By: Chanita Goodblatt, Ann Hollinshead Hurley

£44.99

This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.

Ferocious Things

Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

By: Cathleen Therese Maslen

£34.99

It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness

Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past

Edited By: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Chris N van der Merwe

£49.99

Drawing on South Africa's TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.

Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.

An American Voltaire

Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee

Edited By: E. Joe Johnson, Byron R. Wells

£39.99

This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.

Literature and Sensation

Edited By: Anthony Uhlmann

£44.99

Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.

But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body

Blake’s Revelation Unlocked

By: Eliza Borkowska

£39.99

This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.

Negritude

Legacy and Present Relevance

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.

Edward Thomas

A Mirror of England

By: Jacek Wiśniewski

£44.99

Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.